How does a task-level minimum pay requirement for gig workers affect their earnings and employment? We study this question in the context of a January 2024 law in Seattle that establishes a per-task ...
Loughborough Business School recently welcomed renowned economists Professor Sir Christopher Pissarides and Andrew Haldane CBE to deliver the Royal Economic Society’s Annual Public Lecture to over 250 ...
New labour laws are now in effect. Fixed-term employees receive full benefits and gratuity in 1 year instead of 5 years. Women workers gain equal pay and broader work opportunities. Contract workers ...
Economics professor and former Harvard University President Larry Summers, who recently stepped back from public duties following revelations about his ties to Jeffrey Epstein, opened his class at the ...
Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. In this May 7, 2020, file photo, the entrance to ...
US layoffs: The US labor market faces significant challenges, with an average of 2,500 jobs lost weekly heading into November. High-profile layoffs at companies like Amazon and Target raise concerns ...
Congress MP Shashi Tharoor observed that PM Modi's message resonated as both an economic assessment and a cultural directive, encouraging citizens to strive for national improvement. Congress MP ...
Surveys were delayed and some cannot be collected at all, officials said, further complicating the Federal Reserve’s decision on interest rates next month. By Lydia DePillis and Colby Smith The Bureau ...
Labor economists investigate a wide range of questions aimed at understanding how labor markets work, and how public policies may interact with labor market choices and outcomes. Research interests in ...
New Delhi: Senior Congress leader Shashi Tharoor on Tuesday said Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Ramnath Goenka Lecture served as both an economic outlook and a cultural call to action, urging the ...
This paper studies the labor market effects of recent state-level policies that require employers to disclose salary information in job postings. Leveraging a difference-in-differences design, we show ...
The UK economy has seen slower-than-expected growth of 0.1% in the three months to September, according to the Office for National Statistics.Polls show that putting the blame on the last Conservative ...